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Author: Colin Grant, November 24, 2021.

Nine years after the gas lamps on the streets of the city center were upgraded to electric lights, city officials are determining why some people have lost their luster.

At a meeting of the City Council Public Utilities and Infrastructure Committee held on Monday, it was heard that in response to concerns about the safety of the city center, it is studying how to improve the ambient light provided by the light standard that has been converted from burning natural gas in the past decade.

Brad Maynes, the managing director of the department, said: "From a public safety perspective, the lighting from lamps is not what we expected."

The city’s operations department (previously called municipal engineering) is now offering different combinations of bulb styles and wattages block by block to determine the best solution. May need to be upgraded,

Mains said this may be included in the next budget cycle, which starts in 2023.

"We are looking for different lights and options to create the right ambient light," he said.

"They are difficult to upgrade, but we will keep the historical elements, but we will add new sockets."

Committee members said they had also heard complaints about street lights on the first to fourth streets and core avenues.

When participating in the midnight shopping spree last week, County Robert Dumanowski said that the performance of these lights had achieved varying degrees of success; he said some were dim and some were "almost too bright."

This happened after a major conversion campaign that began about 10 years ago, which turned off the gas lights installed in the 1980s to re-energize Medicine Hat’s pioneering packaging.

Former city councilman Wayne Craven sees this change as a mission, saying it will brighten the area and make it a more attractive destination for diners and shoppers at night.

Beginning in 2012, the city began to convert these lights into electric lights at a cost of $1.5 million. At that time, the wire was led out through the air supply pipe, and then the unique lamp was modified with sockets and LED bulbs.

The discussion items on the agenda are intended to provide new board members with an overview of ongoing projects.

Maines said that managers believe that most of the capital construction projects in 2021 will be "on time and on budget."

Considering the South Saskatchewan River, the city’s flood control plan is now almost complete.

The main project in 2022 will be the construction of a $23 million residue plant connected to the water treatment plant. It will receive small particle debris and dirt in the water sucked into the city's water supply system. Because the material is chemically treated, it can no longer be simply pushed back into the river.

The environmental regulations have been implemented for some time, and Medicine Hat won't be able to comply until 2024.

These materials are currently stored in municipal waste landfills and will eventually be used to cover these pits when they are decommissioned in the next few decades.

Another consequence of the new regulations is that urban power plants will no longer be able to return warm water to the river, which has resulted in the opening of waters in winter.

"We know the ducks must love it," Maines said of the upcoming operational changes.

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